The Pacific Theater
rendered the bomber
a performance of innovation:
the gunner’s wing, the gunner’s
station,
gun turrets on the fuselage
(four guns in later versions),
more turrets
beneath the fuselage,
equipped
with guns and guns and guns, each
gun on a mission.
By ear we follow,
accelerate our capacity to sub-
contract a form of touch
a reach
from land to air to land.
A move to precision,
to computers
to strikes now carried out by drones,
a game:
pin the “Fat Man” to the map,
pin the mission to the morning,
paint the pilot and his damage into
storage.